I've been holding onto this Mascot for a while now, and I decided that I should bite the bullet and just put him out there for the world to see.

The lil narrative of the HeartGear should be... obvious and ambiguous, but he's a cute lil android that creates art "Machines" that he develops in the gear dimension. He can see his creations when he comes out of the gear dimension, but to work on it he has to get back in. That's why he pops in and out of the gear dimension via a gear portal. He's an artist mechanic...!

I know he looks a lot like Noah, but I wanted him to look a lot like ME and well... I based Noah on me as well. I just want the opportunity to dress up as HeartGear for cons and junk It's really an indulgent reason.

what wonderful shoes !!!!! and your design style is very soft, sexy and strong...you are inspiring and i have been an illustrator/animator for ages, your style has such freedom to it, you really put your heart into it

So much to say! First of all right on, you, your Book, and Noah have all Inspired me SO MUCH in ways you cant imagine. In this I can understand the "Gear world" is where you work but until you come out you cant see the results of your work. Now to find your persona is that of a Robot Doll just added another commonality for me as I am a Doll myself and do see myself as such! Ive set designs for forming my own Cosplay of my Doll self and I say Right on for yourself. Really you should do it and Get some pictures up I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to see them. Keep gearin' and building, Keep inspiring, and most important keep being you! *nod nods* ^,,^

Having a mascot for your comics and art that you can dress up as is actually really, really awesome... It makes me want to dress up like the character from my story... But that would be a bit hard considering she's shorter than me by a bit, has fully blond hair while mine is the type of blond that darkened over time so now it looks completely brown, and is a cat girl. If I could pull all that off, I'd make a costume for it right away. At least yours is doable.

As a highly credentialed pretend psychiatrist, the thing that leaped out at me is that dolls have no agency, robots or androids can only behave according to their programming, and the other referenced character spends most of his story being manipulated like a puppet by his sister's closet. All of the above either lack their own will or have had it subverted by an outside force.

I wonder if I should mention that I charge by the hour or just let the secretary do that on the way out?

As a fake mental health professional, I would of course have to evaluate each patient on a case by case basis, but I must note that dolls do exist only to be played with, dressed up and down, or manipulated by others, which I would think implies a desire for some level of abandonment of self-determination in people who would identify themselves with one. I could be alarmingly off base in that assumption, as it's not something that I have any experience with. How common is this "doll" thing?

Indulgent, maybe, but ya gotta do little things for yourself now and again or you'll go crazy. And since this mascot is basically a personification of your alias/ artistic identity, why shouldn't you want to dress up (that only makes sense lol).